Bitfury:
http://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-working-with-georgian-government-on-blockchain-land-registry/
Thanks!
As you said, the project in Honduras stalled for various reasons known and unknown. Hats off to the BitFury team for jumping into the game in Georgia as well. While our systems and operation might be similar, our initiative is being injected into an area where the national and local climates are very different. To quote the Forbes article, "according to the World Bank, Georgia ranks third in the world for ease of registering a property for a small or medium-sized business." Ghana is ranked 77 on that list. Let it be said, it does not matter what part of the world we use the technology in a focused manner such as this, there is going to be an almost immediate benefit as operations move forward. For our part, Ghana was selected because of the much more pronounced uphill battle, the greater need, and the amount of gain which can be realized by the population. There is also the fact that 20% of the earth is Africa. Of that, 90% of that rural landmass is undocumented. Learning to navigate the complex traditions and customs of the nations of Africa early on in the process will only allow BitLand to move with greater precision and alacrity as we push ahead. It is very important to us that we put people first and not the technology. It has long been hypothesized, postulated, and evangelized that the blockchain could do wonders for land titles just like many other areas. The difficulty has never been writing the code, it is in designing a system the fits the needs for a target population. That being, there is no one size fits all solution. One step at a time, one person at a time, one country at a time.
Elliot